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Richard Nixon: Our success in reducing our involvement in Vietnam by 480,000 men before May 1, 1972, and comparable materiel reductions…

On the recordJanuary 23, 1972
Our success in reducing our involvement in Vietnam by 480,000 men before May 1, 1972, and comparable materiel reductions will help enable us for the first time---to spend more in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare than we spend in the Department of Defense.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1973.

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